Corset



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MORRIS P. BRAY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 280,565, dated July 3,1883,

Application filed March 30, 1883.

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MoRRIs P. BRAY, of New Haven, in the county of .NewHaven and State of Connecticut, haveinvented anew Im- 5 provement inCorsets; and I do hereby declare the following, whentaken in connectionwith accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon,to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which saiddrawings eonstitutepart of this specifi cation, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a part of a section of a corset, show ing the stays in place;Fig. 2, atransverse section of the stay enlarged; Fig. 3, a face view ofthe stay.

This invention relates to an improvement in corsets, and stays to beused in the manufacture of corsets, the object being to produce a staycomposed of parallel cords, but which shall give to the corsetsubstantially the appearance of bones; and the invention consists in theconstruction of the stay and of the corset, as hereinafter described,and more ticularly recited in the claims.

I produce the stay by weaving a strip, A, Fig. 3, of suitable width forthe stays of asection of a corset. In this strip, at intervals, pairs ofcords a b are introduced, the two cords composing each pair set as closetogether as may be, leaving only two warpthreads, 0 d, between them.Between the pairs of cords several warp-threads e are in troduced, as incommon weaving. The filling g is introduced and interwovenwith thecords. and the warps, the filling passing alternately over and under thecords,in the usual manner of weaving, and in the passage of the filling9 it is interlaced with the intermediate warps, c. This leaves aflatspace or web, f, between par- 40 the pairs of cords to I), as seen inFigs. 2 and 3. The cords lying so closely together appear (No model.)

as a broad rib, h, projecting upon both sur faces, as seen enlarged inFig. 2.

The cord used should be hard and ofa nature to give a certain amount ofstiffening to 5 the strip. The strip thus produced is cut into lengthsrequired for the respective sections of the corset.

The stay isintroduced between the outer and inner thicknesses, i l, ofthe corset, and lines of stitches m run through the web portion f,between the pairs of cords, as seen in Figs. 1 and 2, giving to thesurface a ribbed appearance, the same as the introduction of bones inpockets produces, and at a much less cost than bones can be procured.

I illustrate in Fig. 1 only a portion of one section of corset; but thatwill be sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to apply thisimproved stay to other sections.

' I claim 1. The herein-described stay, consisting of a strip composedof pairs of cords to I), with series of warp-threads 6 between saidpairs, the said cords and warp-threads interlaced with thefilling-thread g, whereby webs f are formed between said pairs of cords,substantially as described.

2. A corset composed of two thicknesses of fabric, combined with staysintroduced between said thicknesses, composed of pairs of cords, a b,with warp-threads 6 between the cords, interlaced by filling-threads toform webs f between said pairs of cords, said warpthreads and cordsbeing united by the filling in the process of weaving, and the saidthicknesses of the corset stitched together through the said webs,substantially as described.

MORRIS P. BRAY. \Vitnesses:

JOHN E. EARLE, Jos. C. EARLE.

